Deep Isolation, the company that's developed a novel new nuclear waste disposal technology, hopes Congress' overwhelming support for the ADVANCE Act will lend its efforts some political momentum.

Oklo Inc. has been awarded a $6.1 million cost-share project in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne), Deep Isolation, and Case Western Reserve University from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The project is funded under the ARPA-E Converting Used Nuclear Fuel Radioisotopes into Energy (CURIE) program. The CURIE program ...

In this op-ed from the LA Times, Ted Nordhaus and Jameson McBride from the Breakthrough Institute make a case to end the ban on construction of new nuclear power plants in California. Deep Isolation was mentioned as a new technological solution to address nuclear waste disposal.

Startup Deep Isolation says the problem with nuclear waste disposal is we’re not going far enough.